Improved bottle-stopper



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

I. A. WOODBUBY AND G. E. WOODBURY, OF EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

IMPROVED BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Yo.` 50,063, dated September 19, 1865.

To all Iwhom it 'may concern.-

Be it known that we, I. A. l/VOODBURY and G. E. VOODBURY, of East Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, provement in Bottle-Stoppers; and vwe do hereby declare that the following isafull, clear, and exact description o1' the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ot' this specification, in which- Figure l is a side elevation, Fig. 2 back elevation, and Fig. 3 a front elevation, ofthe stopperclosed down upon the mouth of a bottle. Fig. 4 is a side elevation representing the stopper thrown back from the mouth of the bottle, and Fig. is atop View ofthe same; and Fig. 6 is a side elevation, and Fig. 7 is a top view, of the hinged stopper`B, combined with a tixed seat and packing wired to the neck ofthe bottle.

Like parts are indicated by the sameletters in all the drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our improvement, we will now proceed to describe the construction and operation of the same.

A represents the neck ot' a common stone, glass, or earthen bottle, having the usual shoulder labout an inch from the top, which latter should be made smooth and dat, so as to form a suitable seat for the packing e, which rests upon it.

B is a iiat disk, of iron, brass, or other suitable material, the diameter ot' which, as shown in the drawings, is a little greater than that of the mouth of the bottle. Fastened to the under side of the disk by means of a central rivet is a packing, e, ot rubber or other suitable material, large enough to cover the month ofthe bottle. On one edge ot' this disk B is an ear, as shown in Figs. l, 2, 3, 4, and 5, through which is drilled a round hole to receive the wire F, which is bent down till.it reaches the shoulder on the neck ot' the bottle, where the loop is united by means of the wire link or clasp G, as represented in Fig. 2. From this point the two ends of the wire are carried round the neck of the bottle, close to the shoulder, to the opposite side, where they are twisted together, and then cut off within about one-eighth of an inch from the said shoulder, forming a projection, h, as shown in Figs. l and 4.

C is a hasp, the upper end ofy which is conhave invented a new and useful Im ined to the ear'j on the disk B by means of the pivot d. Through the lower end of the hasp, as shown in Fig. 3, is a hole large enough to receive the projecting ends 7i of the wire F.

M is a dat ring, of the same diameter as the disk B, provided with a projecting tenori, t, which enters a corresponding mortise in the projection fi of the disk B, m being a pivot on which the said disk turns. Opposite the projection tf is a projectiornj, to which the hasp C is attached by means of the pivot d. Opposite the tenori tis a projection, h, which enters the slot w in the hasp C, whereby the elastic packing e on the bottom of the disk B is pressed tightly onto the top ot' the ring M, as represented in Fig. 6.

n n, are lugs (there may be more than two, it' desired) projecting each side of the ring M, and e' is an elastic packing-ring attached to the bottom of the ring M and resting on the mouth of the bottle, as shown in Fig. 6.

O is a wire, passed round the neck of the bottle and over the lugs n n, by means of which the ring M, with its packing e', is permanently and tightly attached to the mouth ofthe bottle, while the hinged cover B is free to be opened and closed.

Our stopper is very simple, cheap, and durable, and readily applied to any bottle in general use, while the ease with which the bottle can be opened or closed and the saving of corks effected by the use of our invention render it a very desirable improvement.

Having thus described the construction and operation of our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The hinged disk B, provided with the packing e and hasp C, or theireqnivalents, in combination with the wire F, applied to the month and neck of a bottle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The lixed ring or seat M, provided with the lugs n n, projection h, and packing e, and hinged to the disk B, substantially as set forth, and for the purpose described.

3. Formin'got' the twisted ends h ot the wire F a catch for the hasp C, substantially as described.

GEOBGE E. WOODBURY. ISAAC A. WOODBURY. Witnesses:

N. AMES, GEo. R. CLARKE. 

